This hour, we’ll talk to Sara Gorman and Jack Gorman about why people insist science is wrong despite concrete evidence. They write about it in their book, “Denying to the Grave: Why We Ignore the Facts That Will Save Us.”
This hour, we’ll talk about the how society might handle people living to be hundreds of years old – and how life-extending breakthroughs can be evenly shared – with Eve Herold, author of “Beyond Human: How Cutting-Edge Science Is Extending Our Lives.”
This hour, we’ll talk about the scientists who risk their lives studying venom – and how their research is helping to produce live-saving drugs for humans. We’ll be joined by science journalist Christie Wilcox, author of “Venomous: How Earth’s Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry.”
This hour, we’ll talk with Krista Tippett about the lessons she’s learned from hosting the podcast “On Being,” which she writes about in “Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living”
This hour, we’ll talk about how about how girls are being better diagnosed and treated for the condition, the subject of a recent report in Scientific American magazine.
This hour, we’ll talk about how we can strengthen the neural pathways in our brains that foster closeness with psychiatrist Amy Banks.
This hour, we’ll learn about how scientists are developing a better understanding of how memories work – and how they can sometimes be manipulated – with Anna Lee Strachan, director of an upcoming “NOVA” episode on the topic.
This hour, we’ll talk about how psychiatry gained legitimacy through the work of Sigmund Freud and other practitioners with Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman, author of “Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry” (Back Bay Books).
We’ll talk about the current state of microbial research with Rob DeSalle, curator of entomology in the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
We’ll talk with Clark Elliott about how a pair of Chicago researchers helped him to regain his mental capacity, which he writes about in The Ghost in My Brain: How a Concussion Stole My Life and How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Helped Me Get it Back.
